He continued: "This border here in Hong Kong, because it's the special arrangement where they have autonomy, should have been closed by Carrie Lam, right? But she takes orders from the bosses in Beijing. So everybody's saying that.

"There's two experienced doctors who are experts just dropped dead in Wuhan. You probably heard about that. Just drop dead after working on this and there are members of the hospital staff, Nigel, that are dropping on the floor.

"That doesn't sound like the flu to me."

He added that people are "terrified" and the government is "trying to play it down"